由密契尔·鲍威尔等三位导演联合执导的一部历久弥新的神话片。故事取材于阿拉伯神话，内容大致描述一个会妖术的奸相贾法，用阴谋诡计把巴格达城的阿麦王拘禁起来，然后自号为王。阿麦后来得到同牢的小神阿菩相助而逃走。贾法为了得到公主，把阿麦变成瞎子，并把阿菩变成一条狗。最后得巨人相助，终于射杀贾法，让阿麦重新成为巴格达城的国王。导演手法相当统一流畅，而且对光影的运用别有一手。此外，本片有很多建筑宏伟的布景和模型，运用起来都很恰当，交互剪接之后也没有什么明显的破绽。

一个临时演员被召去在一部关于俄国革命的电影中扮演一名将军,然而,他并不是一位普通的临时演员,他就是谢尔盖·亚历山大,尼古拉斯沙皇时期的一位前将军。他在1917年共产主义革命后从俄国军队里逃到了好莱坞。现在,为了使电影的导演,一个也曾参加过俄国革命的人满意,他被迫要去重新 经历那一段曾带给他无穷苦痛的生活。这一次,这个倒霉的将军有机会去“赢得”那曾经一败涂地的战役。电影闪回到亚历山大在俄战中的艰难生活。他感到无论他怎样努力,似乎都无法阻止历史的车轮滚滚向前。但是有一个女孩理解他,因为他的强烈的爱国精神和正派的行为,这个女孩爱上了他……

An ordinary man, while vigorously asserting the impossibility of miracles, suddenly discovers that he can perform them.

In 1620s France, dreaded swordsman Gil de Berault returns from carrying out a mission for Cardinal Richelieu, and finds the Cardinal worried about growing opposition from the Huguenots in the south. The Cardinal also warns de Berault that dueling has been outlawed, and will henceforth be punishable by death. Gil, however, promptly disobeys the law and is indeed sentenced to death. The Cardinal offers to cancel the sentence if de Berault is able to capture the duke who is organizing plans for an uprising. Gil travels to the duke's castle and is allowed to stay as a guest, but the duke's wife and sister immediately suspect that he is a spy. He and his servant still make good progress, until he falls in love with the duke's sister, which complicates everything.

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这部电影是一个被埋葬的宝藏。它是潜力导演Lubitsch的作品。虽然另一位导演Preminger认为这部戏可以拍摄的更好。这部戏剧令人很轻松，有很多很好笑的对话。故事讲说从前俄国皇族Catherine爱上了一位英俊的兵士William。而这位就是她倒台的原因。最后，Catherine竟然还让William和另外一位女人溜走。电影中3人的关系演得非常微妙。

费弗森将军因儿子哈瑞，幼年只喜好诗词，怕有辱家族声誉，托好友苏顿大夫照应。
将军死后，哈瑞要求解除军职，因英埃联军将对苏丹用兵，被同伴视为懦夫，寄白羽毛羞辱他，但英军对苏丹用兵并不顺利，哈瑞赴埃及要求医生改容为当地土著，潜入前线，起原军团被回民打败，同伴非殉职即被俘入狱，哈瑞救好友杜伦斯上尉回英国阵地而被捕，旋即逃狱到哈土木营救同伴，英军终来到哈土木，哈瑞策动监狱暴动，控制一边城墙，英军收复哈土木，哈瑞成为大英雄。

故事开始于十六世纪初，因为皇后凯瑟琳（宾妮·巴尼斯 Binnie Barnes 饰）无法生育，英国国王亨利八世（查尔斯·劳顿 Charles Laughton 饰）同她离婚，另娶了名为恩尼（梅尔·奥勃朗 Merle Oberon 饰）的女子为皇后，哪知道野心勃勃的恩尼整天盘算着推翻丈夫的统治自立为王，当她的阴谋败露之后，亨利八世亲手将她送上了断头台。
恩尼死后，亨利八世娶了奇恩（温迪·巴里 Wendy Barrie 饰）为妻，哪知道在生产时，奇恩因为难产而死，只留下了一个可怜的婴儿威尔斯（迈尔斯·曼德 Miles Mander 饰）。之后，大臣们想要国王迎娶德国公主，可这一次，国王驳回了大臣们的请求。

Star Pola Negri and director Ernst Lubitsch, who created an international sensation with the German superproduction DuBarry, Woman of Passion, were reunited in the frothy Hollywood comedy/drama Forbidden Paradise. Negri is cast as Catherine, the Czarina of an unnamed but very Russian-looking country. Rescued from revolutionaries by dashing Captain Alexis Czerny (Rod LaRocque), Catherine "repays" the Captain in the boudoir. Czerny falls madly in love with the Czarina, only to discover that he is the latest in a long line of royal consorts. Angrily, he joins the rebellion, vowing to topple the monarchy (but promising that Catherine will remain unharmed). When the revolution fails, Czerny is sentenced to death, but Catherine rescinds the order and allows him a happily-ever-after with his true love, lady-in-waiting Anna (Pauline Starke). Adolphe Menjou, a favorite of Lubitsch's, has all the film's best scenes as a rakish chancellor. Based on a play by Lajos Biro and Melchoir Lengyel, Forbidden Paradise was remade in 1945 as A Royal Scandal, with Tallulah Bankhead as Catherine; the 1945 film was produced by Ernst Lubitsch, who fell ill during shooting and was forced to relinquish the directorial responsibilities to Otto Preminger. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

British District Officer in Nigeria in the 1930's rules his area strictly but justly, and struggles with gun-runners and slavers with the aid of a loyal native chief.